“You can have a couple of people who are dynamite dancers together and put them onstage in front of an audience and it all falls apart. Everything that makes them excellent to watch turns drab and self-conscious. They try too hard; they do predictable things.”
– Steve Paxton
from “Why Standing? Steve Paxton talks about how the Stand relates to Stage Fright and Entrainment in Contact Improvisation” edited by Karen Nelson in
CONTACT QUARTERLY JOURNAL WINTER/SPRING 2015